underisk
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- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 4 days ago:
Whatever the fuck it is it doesn’t need to know how old I am to do its job.
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 4 days ago:
An init system does not need to know my personal details; it’s for starting programs in a specific order just fuck off with this shit. You don’t even have to capitulate to this stuff and these freaks are out here doing it preemptively like they expect a fucking pat on the head for being first in line to dive tongue first on to that boot.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 1 week ago:
it’s the main way for software to verify the identity of a source. without it you let nefarious actors do something like hijack a DNS server and impersonate your servers to your users, which is a pretty big problem if you’re running a software distribution network! it is literally a breach of trust and massive security vulnerability. and it probably broke a ton of shit when software that uses the certificate found an expired one and suddenly (and correctly) refused to work.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 weeks ago:
Even Bernie Sanders acknowledged on the senate floor that in a perfect world, where AI is owned by people invested in world benefit, moderate AI use could improve many people’s lives.
I don’t think you should make a claim like this while AI is being heavily subsidized and burning VC cash to stay afloat. The truth is whatever value it may add to such a society might actually be completely negated by it’s resource costs. Is even “moderate” AI use ecologically or economically sustainable?
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 2 weeks ago:
SBF wasn’t doing securities fraud with only crypto, if that’s what you’re thinking of.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 2 weeks ago:
Normal money can get you a visit from the SEC when you do securities fraud with it. Has that ever happened with a crypto pump and dump?
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 2 weeks ago:
This is also why people who complain about how “our tax dollars” are spent are missing the point. Their tax dollars don’t fund the government or any of its activities. Taxes are just an inflationary control measure; money is created when the government spends it.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 2 weeks ago:
I mean it’s also really really good at money laundering and other financial securities scams that are otherwise illegal in real currency. IDK why OP is being so dismissive of that.
As long as the gov refuses to regulate it, it’s going to be useful for crimes. On the off chance we ever get a government willing to actually do anything but war crimes and graft, regulating it would destroy a lot of its utility and value.
- Comment on Predator spyware uses stealthy trick to disable iOS recording alerts(without triggering the green or orange status bar dots) 5 weeks ago:
Pretty on the nose that the Israeli spyware company named their spyware after what we call people who sexually assault children.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 5 weeks ago:
Carrier pigeons aren’t trained to establish a safe society for humanity. So if they get destroyed they haven’t failed at their primary objective. Governments, though…
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 5 weeks ago:
Well, permanent because if it gets destroyed it you can’t call it successful, and utopia because you need an ideal to measure success against even if its not realistically achievable.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 5 weeks ago:
A permanent utopia free from geopolitical influence has yet to be established under any system of government, therefore no government has ever worked.
- Comment on Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article 5 weeks ago:
So he used an AI tool to “organize” references and it hallucinated crap that made it into the human-written article because he never reviewed the output for accuracy.
This guy writes about AI for a living, he knows it hallucinates, and he even acknowledges the irony but never explains why he thought experimenting with AI was a good idea to begin with. Am I supposed to assume his judgment was impaired by being sick?
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 1 month ago:
Letting them win because you’ve canceled before even playing is also a losing formula. Even if they don’t get awarded monetary damages they can probably at least get their legal expenses covered.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 1 month ago:
Libel. Taking it down doesn’t undo the damage to reputation which libel is concerned with.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 month ago:
All the executives invested heavily in AI because they’re easily wowed by things that look impressive but have no substance so they thought it was the next Big Thing. They want it to pay off so they can cash out and get rich(er).
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 month ago:
Sure, but I think wanting to fuck children does kind of paint a vivid picture about your general moral character in a way your dietary preferences might not.
- Comment on It's a Furby! 1 month ago:
More like fae horror, imo.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 2 months ago:
Great; a return to thin clients. How innovative and revolutionary.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 2 months ago:
She doesn’t, no. But who do you think she’s going to ask about it when the popup tells her she needs to pay out to store more files? What do you think i would have told her to do before reading this article?
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 2 months ago:
She doesn’t know what she accepted man, that’s the fucking point.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 2 months ago:
My sister’s brand new Windows 11 laptop came with the user data folders replaced by OneDrive and I very seriously doubt she did that intentionally.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 2 months ago:
If the people in question were choosing to use OneDrive in the first place, I might agree with you. Since MS is forcing this crap on everyone it’s their fault when people lose data to it.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 2 months ago:
im sorry but that lever did not have a sharp resonating tremor associated that reverberated into my soul so it is, regretfully, inferior
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 2 months ago:
Doesn’t compare to the satisfying click of playing with the forbidden spring loaded metal door.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 2 months ago:
By changing from a company that produces a product for consumers to a company that produces stock value for share holders.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 months ago:
I started doing this after my roommate got upset with me because she blindly sat down and fell in. Then she got upset because she interpreted this as passive aggressive.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I sure do love it when people learn the wrong lesson.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 months ago:
DLSS has made devs lazy. Why bother optimizing when you can have some whiz bang AI algorithm turn a low res input into a greasy looking high res output.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 months ago:
if the US government were actually funded by taxes, everything the government does would be with “my money”